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Should Jerome Powell put on his Paul Volcker outfit and push interest rates through the roof? I would argue that, while modest rate hikes are appropriate, it is too soon to bring out the heavy artillery.

Condemning Putin’s war must go hand in hand with imagining a more just security order.

Final 2022 spending bill trims Biden’s big spending boosts for research

The troubling history and dangerous U.S. relationship with the Azov Battalion and other extreme right-wing groups in Ukraine cannot be forgotten.

Little Richard and blackqueer grief.

In mainly black-and-white photos, Division Street juxtaposes how the down-and-out and more fortunate co-exist in the same urban spaces. His photos remind that the lives of those without homes will not improve until their need for shelter is met.

The housing crisis is a syndrome of capitalism that turns everything and all aspects of human life into a source of profit and sacrifices the needs and lives of people on the altar of capital accumulation, similar to the arms industry and trade.

"Peace will only come through accelerating the transition to renewable energy, not by trading Russian oligarchs for American oil and gas barons," said a Greenpeace campaigner.

Critics often say the working class doesn't fight back against exploitation because it's confused about its real interests. But this ignores how capitalism itself leads workers to resign themselves to their situation — and how we can overcome that

Esther Kamkar’s prayer for the dead addresses the vast universality of war’s human tragedy.